DIMENSIONI SONORE Deluxe Box Set (Red Color 10LP+10CD+Book+Poster+Tote-Bag+Deluxe Linen Box)

Widely celebrated and easily among the most ambitious and beautiful endeavors of the last year, the "Dimensioni Sonore" box is truly a stunning thing to behold. Thankfully, Dialogo has repressed this wonder in a brand-new edition of 250 copies on red vinyl. If you weren’t able to grab a copy the first time around, this is a once in a lifetime chance that can’t be missed.
**Limited Collector Edition which comes complete with 10LPs on red vinyl, 10CDs, a 40-page LP-sized book in English, an exclusive large poster, screen-printed tote, all housed in a handmade (in Italy) custom lavish linen box. Edition of 250 copies.** Among the most important figures in 20th Century Italian music, Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai each forged distinct and unexpected creative paths that were entirely tuned to the eras through which they worked; radical and forward-thinking composers, who activated vast new worlds of possibility via the mediums of film and television. Morricone has long held legendary status for his soundtrack and library music work, as well as his explicitly avant-garde and experimental endeavours within the seminal collective, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, but Dimensioni Sonore - a sprawling body of recordings originally issued by RCA in 1972 - holds equal distinction as a historically prescient illumination into the slightly lesser-known efforts of Nicolai, and the groundbreaking importance of his work.

Regular collaborators over the course of their respective careers, Morricone and Nicolai met as students during the early 1950s at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome, fostering a friendship that would yield, from the mid 1960s on, hundreds of albums that bear both of their names. Each of these is incredible and worthy of note, but none is as astounding, distinct, or ambitious as Dimensioni Sonore, regarded by many as the crown jewel in RCA’s legendary library music series, Catalogo di Musiche per Sonorizzazioni.

To sum it up, this new edition of the Luxurious, highly collectible Dimensioni Sonore box set includes:

- 10 LPs on red vinyl, replica of the original RCA LPs
- 10 CDs
- a 40-page sewn-bound large book (LP size)
- 1 large poster on high-quality paper
- screen-printed tote printed on an ethically-produced 100% cotton
- handmade linen boxset
- Original liner notes include writings by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Leone, Elio Petri, Giuliano Montaldo, and Gillo Pontecorvo and a new article by renowned musicologist Maurizio Corbella exploring in detail this edition.
- Carefully remastered from the original analogue tapes by Claudio Fuiano and Daniel Winkler and coming in a lavish presentation, this is an essential release which fully showcase the state of the art of Library Music in Italy during the early '70s, and nothing less than a timeless masterpiece.

Almost entirely distinct in scale and content, Dimensioni Sonore (it could be translated as Sound Dimensions - Music for Images and Imagination) - towers in the history of library music; the intriguing and idiosyncratic realm that, particularly in Italy, offered a vehicle for a great many of the country’s most radical composers to stretch their talents into wild and unknown territories, allowing them to infiltrate the public consciousness via the mediums of television and film. Gathering 103 works - 5 LPs ascribed to works by Morricone and 5 to those of Nicolai - ranging from cerebral jazzy numbers to otherworldly avant-garde abstractions, it's no surprise that these recordings feature members of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza (in a sort of post The Feed-Back album line-up configuration).

Like nearly all library music, the works of Dimensioni Sonore were not composed with any particular film or thematic association in mind, rather to be selected by filmmakers at a later date. This gave Morricone and Nicolai a remarkable amount of freedom to follow their creative intuition into strikingly uncharted realms. Deploying a starling range of acoustic and electronic instrumentation and techniques, and conceived in sequential order, across the 10 LPs Morricone and Nicolai - working far more like avant-garde composers than the creators of film scores - set out to create a body of expressive and dynamic work which explored constant timbric exploitations and multiform musical parameters, and their possibilities for utilization, titling each composition with no with no direct relation to its form, intentionally leaving the meaning entirely to listener’s mind. While too varied to describe in any detail, the organizations of sound encountered across Dimensioni Sonore are incredibly distinct within the music of its moments, and arguably any before or since. Sheets of pointillistic ambience bristle with details of synthetic and organic tones and textures, generating a fields of abstraction that could be mistaken for any number of avant-garde and experimental gestures of the '60s and '70s, where it not for the unifying, cracking rhythm section drives it forward and pushes into entirely unexpected realms, which gave Sergio Leone, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elio Petri, Gillo Pontecorvo, all Giuliano Montaldo all plenty to explore in their original liner notes for their release.

A true genre defying marvel, Dialogo’s repress of their first ever vinyl reissue of Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai’s masterstroke, Dimensioni Sonore, comes in a super deluxe fabric-woven box-set with 10 LPs on red vinyl + 10 CDs, reproducing the original liner notes by the incredible cast mentioned above. This is the last chance to grab a copy of one of the seminal documents of Italian library music and avant-garde exploration, by two of the most important composers the country has ever produced.

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CD ONE: DIMENSIONI SONORE 1 / Ennio Morricone
01 Rifrazione
02 Fasi
03 Proporzionale
04 Conduzione
05 Poligoni
06 Parabola
07 Radiazioni
08 Anagramma
09 Antitesi
10 Conseguenze

CD TWO: DIMENSIONI SONORE 2 / Bruno Nicolai
01 Monomi
02 Diametri
03 Evoluzioni
04 Analogie
05 Costruzioni
06 Fenomeni
07 Razionale
08 Espansione
09 Mutamenti
10 Acromatico
11 Variabile

CD THREE: DIMENSIONI SONORE 3 / Ennio Morricone
01 Convergenze
02 Statico
03 Trasformazioni
04 Costante
05 Frazione
06 Tangente
07 Simmetrico
08 Proposizioni
09 Alternanze
10 Superficie

CD FOUR: DIMENSIONI SONORE 4 / Bruno Nicolai
01 Diagramma
02 Determinante
03 Prismatico
04 Variante
05 Movimento
06 Riflessione
07 Mutazione
08 Cromosfera
09 Differenza
10 Progressione

CD FIVE: DIMENSIONI SONORE 5 / Ennio Morricone
01 Attrazione
02 Esponenti
03 Interposizione
04 Frasi
05 Proporzioni
06 Studio
07 Azione
08 Induzioni

CD SIX: DIMENSIONI SONORE 6 / Bruno Nicolai
01 Spirale
02 Irrazionale
03 Parentesi
04 Indefinito
05 Configurazioni
06 Espressioni
07 Frammenti
08 Estensione
09 Invariabile
10 Inversione
11 Retrospettivo
12 Adiacenti

CD SEVEN: DIMENSIONI SONORE 7 / Ennio Morricone
01 Impulsi
02 Segmenti
03 Dialogo
04 Gravitazione
05 Magnetismo
06 Conduttivo
07 Applicazioni
08 Frequenza
09 Scissione
10 Funzione
11 Attrito

CD EIGHT: DIMENSIONI SONORE 8 / Bruno Nicolai
01 Proiezione
02 Equivalenze
03 Parallele
04 Molecole
05 Automazione
06 Coordinate
07 Informativo
08 Epiciclo
09 Flessione
10 Consecutivo
11 Nozioni

CD NINE: DIMENSIONI SONORE 9 / Ennio Morricone
01 Parafrasi
02 Enunciazione
03 Collisione
04 Densita
05 Librazione
06 Commutativo
07 Risolvente
08 Parallasse
09 Correlativo
10 Contrapposizioni
11 CoesioneV

CD TEN: DIMENSIONI SONORE 10 / Bruno Nicolai
01 Diagonali
02 Congiungente
03 Magma
04 Spettro
05 Poliedrico
06 Continuativo
07 Condensazione
09 Nucleo